I plan on picking up a few tools and MJKs MathCAD sheets over the next few months so that I can spend the winter building boxes different types of boxes.

What I am wondering is, is there any one fullrange speaker that seems to work acceptably in all the different box types? I mean something that performs acceptable in a sealed, vented, transmission line, horn (BIB), and MLTL? The CSS FR125 seems to have a lot of different designs out there for it in most of the different types of boxes. Is there anything else out there anybody can think of?

On the Prairies, you are supposed to build speakers in the summer and do electronics in the winter !

Gmilitano you should have told my old man that one! I guess I thought I could do that kind of thing in winter due to the many hours a day I would be holding boards while dad cut them, all outside in the blizzarding snow!

Thanks for the hint there on the FE127E. I see there is a lot of things one can do with that speaker. Their is a BIB design up on Godzillas site and a MLTL as well.

Originally posted by davidallancole
How far away from the wall does a bipole need to be? I can hand around a foot, but any farther and the girlfriend will kill me.

To really be at their best probably a foot plus, but as a counter to that we were listening to Scott Dunn's BiFonkens on Friday night and they were sited about 8" from the wall (althou at a bit of an angle) and sounded FINE

And with Mets -- especially if made from plywood as recommended -- they are not hard to move a bit further out for really serious listening.